Feds want reporting for high-powered rifle sales

BMT (RIP) · 12-20-2010, 15:27

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101220/...es_reporting_2

BMT

Blitzzz (RIP) · 12-20-2010, 21:05

Yeah, I saw this this morning, and am lost for words. I know it's just another incremental step toward a bad bad future. Slight shaving of the 2nd amendment. It just sucks and another example of giving up freedoms for security.

12-20-2010, 22:53

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Originally Posted by Blitzzz

Yeah, I saw this this morning, and am lost for words. I know it's just another incremental step toward a bad bad future. Slight shaving of the 2nd amendment. It just sucks and another example of giving up freedoms for security.

Would one have to register a hand made BAR?

Blitzzz (RIP) · 12-20-2010, 23:22

I'll take one....

aegisnavy · 12-20-2010, 23:24

Hmmmm...let me get this straight. The BATFE wants dealers near the border to report multiple "high power" rifle sales. I see three inevitable results from this MENSA candidate "emergency order."

1. Good guy who buys six rifles for his collection gets grilled and harassed by the BATFE, and must prove he is a good guy.

2. Criminals and their cohorts just go a few miles up river and buy from dealers with no federal reporting requirements.

3. The frustrated BATFE then demands another emergency order that all dealers must provide reports.

Oh yeah, there is a 4th result, too:

4. Honest, law abiding citizens lose more of their constitutional rights that make this country great.

I can't wait to see the BS definition of what constitutes a high power rifle in the BATFE's world.

Keep on slowly boiling that frog, and he'll be dead before he knows it.

tonyz · 12-21-2010, 11:55

Acting Director Announces Demand Letters for Multiple Sales of Specific Long Guns in Four Border States

ATF Press Release -- Excerpt and link:

"Hello, I’m Ken Melson, the Acting Director of ATF.

A recent initiative by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has caught the attention of national media outlets. I wanted to make sure everyone heard from me about this law enforcement initiative so there isn’t any confusion.

Recently, ATF announced through the Federal Register our intent to initiate a new Demand Letter requiring the reporting of multiple sales of certain long guns by Federal Firearms Licensees, known as FFLs, in the four Southwest Border States. We took this step as a way to help gain actionable law enforcement intelligence which we believe will help reduce criminal firearms trafficking along the Southwest border.

Before we can actually issue the Demand Letter we must receive approval from the Office of Management and Budget for purposes of the paperwork reduction act. We expect to receive that approval in early January, 2011."

http://www.atf.gov/press/releases/20...n-webcast.html

Blitzzz (RIP) · 12-21-2010, 13:22

E-mail address of this ass hole to let him be aware that a probationary implementation of the "Letter" is in fact unlawful, in every respect of the law. while this may be something he believes will slow the movement of such weapons south to Mexico, it only opens the door to further widen the range of such perceived "controls".
While it's not an infringement of buying weapons, it's a harassment to ownership.